To Dance with the Devil

The New War on Breast Cancer

Author: Karen Stabiner
ISBN: 0385312849

This is the story of a killer and the people fighting to stop it.Breast cancer takes the life of an American woman every twelve minutes. Thereis no sure cure for the disease, no known way to prevent it, and no means ofpredicting whom it will strike next. A community of dogged adversaries standsin opposition to it: mavericks and bureaucrats, brilliant innovators andeveryday heroes. Often at passionate odds in temper and technique, they areunited in their resolve against an elusive, implacable enemy. "To Dance withthe Devil" is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes account from the war on oneof medicine's most pernicious foes.The product of over three years of research, scores of interviews with thenation's top doctors, policymakers, researchers, and activists, and in-depthreporting on the patients and clinicians who invited the author into theirlives, "To Dance with the Devil" is at once an up-to-the-minute report anda gripping human drama. For a year Karen Stabiner was a steady observer a

Publisher: Delacorte Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Breast Cancer)